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Multiple cerebral infarctions in a patient with refractory idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
Author(s) -
OTSUKI T.,
FUNAKAWA T.,
SUGIHARA T.,
KANZAKI A.,
WADA H.,
INOUE T.,
YAMADA O.,
UEKI A.,
YAWATA Y.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.625
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1365-2796
pISSN - 0954-6820
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2796.1997.72899000.x
Subject(s) - medicine , thrombocytopenic purpura , refractory (planetary science) , thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura , cerebral infarction , lupus anticoagulant , pathogenesis , platelet , ischemia , thrombosis , physics , astrobiology
Multiple cerebral infarctions were observed in a patient with refractory idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura who was positive for lupus anticoagulant (LAC) when her platelet counts were 2000 μL −1 . It is suspected that LAC may have played an important role in the pathogenesis of this patient's cerebral infarctions, although she had severe thrombocytopenia.